The light of a lamp will never shine in you again. The voice of bridegroom and bride will never be heard in you again. Your merchants were the world’s important people. By your magic spell all the nations were led astray.
-Revelation 18:23
The last sentence "by your magic spell all the nations were led astray" appears to indicate modern day people will be influenced into taking many wrong turns in life through sorcery.
The ten horns you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but will receive one hour of authority as kings, along with the beast.
-Revelation 17:12
Those who rule over this process will be granted one hour of authority.
But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.
-2 Peter 3:8
1,000 years is 1 day to God.
To get 1 hour we divide 1,000 by 24.
= 41.6666666667 years.
This could mean we only have to tolerate the nonsense and silliness of the beast and its minions for 41 years.
It could also mean that the magic spell mentioned in revelation 18:23 ends at a similar point in time.
In pondering events of the past 20 years. Does anyone remember how impossible it used to be to convince people to take important topics seriously. 10 years ago, if you brought up a topic like the deficit as being vitally important, people would look at you as if you were crazy. It was almost as if they were under a magic spell preventing them from considering matters of their own critical importance. Being asleep in this way allowed many questionable events to occur, setting the stage for negative economic trends of today.
But it seems that we are witnessing something resembling a counter culture movement to these negative trends. People are beginning to watch the news and follow current events. The level of knowledge and literacy for the public is on the rise. Liberals who protested the 2nd amendment only a few years ago, are now buying guns in record numbers to defend themselves.
Perhaps this indicates the magic spell mentioned in revelation 18:23 is weakening. The spell is weakening and people are beginning to wake up.
This trend applies not only to the united states but the entire world.
Am I missing anything obvious in my outline (which I did not work very hard on).
Please share your thoughts and feedback which are always useful for learning purposes.